ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,228,408, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to The Boeing Co. (Arlington, Va.).

"Sensor data fusion system with noise reduction and fault protection" was invented by Rongsheng Li (Corona, Calif.), Chang J. Yoo (Long Beach, Calif.), Tung-Ching Tsao (Torrance, Calif.), Andrey Tolstov (Anaheim, Calif.) and Cody L. Gruebele (Corona, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensor data fusion systems that provide noise reduction and fault protection. The sensor data fusion system fuses data acquired by respective accelerometers having different attributes. For example, one accelerometer has low noise and high bias, while another accelerometer has h...